THE SACRIFICE OF BABULAL BHUIYA
(63 min., Hindi with English subtitles, 1988)
Director/ Producer: Manjira Datta
Camera: Ranjan Palit | Sound: Omesh Matta, Suresh Raajamani | Editor: Reena Mohan
The Mailagora coalfields: a community of workers recycle coal slurry. Their comrade, a casual worker named Babulal Bhuiya was killed by Industrial Security Guards (CISF) in 1981. Protests followed and denunciations of harassment from guards, police and landowners. The workers share their living conditions and remember their comrade's "sacrifice."
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